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TIL that lasagne is the plural form of lasagna

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9XlX Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel had an obsessive fear of being poisoned, and would only eat food that his wife prepared for him. When she had to be hospitalized for six months in 1977, he refused to eat at all and died weighing 65 pounds.
wLxno TIL Giraffes' closest relatives are Okapis, half-zebra, half-giraffe, and ossicones!
woOPJ TIL there was an official Ace Attorney movie released in 2012, and Nintendo Life called it "the best video game movie out there"
78kV7 TIL:Over 50 years ago, Alan B. Shepard Jr. played a game of golf that was "out of this world." Almost 240,000 miles away from Earth, Shepard hit two golf balls on the surface of the moon.
Wwmo TIL the old testament law “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” was not intended to justify retaliation. It was intended to prevent blood feuds and other excessive forms of retribution.